For better or for worse, a small part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft will now be Jon Mesick's to have and to hold for all the days of his life. The tape is the centerpiece of Mesick's wedding band.

The Sweden-based Moonhouse Project send a self-assembling house to the moon as part of a lunar art installation late 2015. See images of the Moonhouse Project in this Space.com gallery.

Image via Mini Museum This specimen is a fragment of mission-flown kapton foil, which provided thermal protection for the Apollo 13 Command Module. Each specimen measures approximately 1mm x 1mm.

The Solar Wind Composition Experiment on Apollo missions 11, 12, 14, 15, and 16 where made of aluminium foil as well. Exposed to the sun for as long as 45 hours, solar wind particles would get ...